I couldn't bear the road anymore. I'm sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes - I wanted to go home.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would heave a sigh of relief, that finally there is a melody and orchestration, production and a vocalist that is giving them a song that they can just listen to... and not be annoyed by the vocal acrobatics that vocalists seem to think is impressive.

I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.